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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.
Lev Grossman
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Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
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Lexington
Massachusetts
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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do? Oh, absolutely, Quentin said. Maybe even more.
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I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
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I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
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As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.
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I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
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Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
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Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
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Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.
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I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
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You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.
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